So.... Premiership football...

..... how do you feel about the prospect of watching it again next season?

I know that there have been discussions on here about enjoying seeing the team play (comparatively) well, and win, in the Championship.... so are you apprehensive about the standard of play next season?
I realise that a lot rides on how much money is spent on whom, but in general - apprehensive or excited?

Me, too. It's more along the lines of who (if anybody!!) we're going to buy, and can we make a go of it!! I am totally resigned to MA still being here, but maybe, just maybe he will have seen a bit of sense. And that would allow us a glimmer of hope to be able to cope back up where we belong.

Wouldnt it be easier to upgrade the standard of the females on here altogether rather than just tarting up the Championship level ones we have at present? I cant see this lot doing much against top flight opponents

Porsonally I think its a cunt as I have got used to winning !! the team and backroom staff will change out of all recognition....ahh knaa me cups half empty but on a positive note at least we get to torn the mackems ower

Well I for one Stoney am pleased as punch about the manner of our promotion, and am glad we are out of this weird dreamlike existence.

It's going to be odd not being the top dogs as we have all this season, but given the right signings I hope that this squad can hold its own next season. I mean, why not?

The likes of Stoke have proven that you don't have to spend millions like Sunderland to achieve safety. And Fulham have proven that under a good manager bigger things are possible.

I would prefer to see a top manager installed if I am being honest, but if this is not possible I think CH deserves a crack to prove doubters like myself wrong.

However, I still have this nagging feeling that the club may change hands again in the summer. Whether this proves to be a disruptive thing in the short-term is anyone's guess - if Ashley does sell up I just hope it is all sorted very quickly at the start of the summer to give us a fighting chance to buy players.

One thing that has set the alarm bells ringing for me already is the story in the Chronic "CHRIS HUGHTON has revealed that transfer talks with Mike Ashley will wait until the last ball of the Championship season has been kicked."

If this is true it is classic NUFC short-termism and lack of planning. Proper clubs have players lined up months ahead. It may be a clue as to Ashley's true intentions, ie. selling the club? Or it could just be what we are used to at our wonderful club.

listening to a mackem on Legends tonight......he reckoned that the team that beat Tottenham at the weekend was worth around 41million....compared to ours that beat Sheffield last night was worth around 46 million

I couldn't be arsed to work it out to see if he was just bullshitting but it seemed genuine enough

There are loads of players out there, available and at reasonable prices. The only clubs that will be splashing out are so far ahead of us that it doesnt matter because we wont be after the same players.

Sal Wrote:There are loads of players out there, available and at reasonable prices. The only clubs that will be splashing out are so far ahead of us that it doesnt matter because we wont be after the same players.

Just for starters, all will probs be switching prem clubs in the summer, and any number of players from abroad if only we look in the right places.

The pundits telling us we must spend Â£60mil and the like 'just to survive' are either fucking stupid or just trying to overdramatise our so called plight.

Absolute bollocks really,we are already a better side than what went down, and the league itself has arguably got shitter.

I fancy is to do ok next season, without spending a relative fortune.

Â£60m is a joke figure made up by that gobby Forest manager. How much has Everton, Birmingham, Stoke, Blackburn, Fulham, Wolves, Bolton and Wigan spent recently?

These are the clubs we must compete with next season both on and off the pitch. I see no reason why players would not rather come to NUFC than to these sides (well perhaps not Everton) - the questions are of course how much will Ashley spend and is Hughton good enough to get the right players.

Â£60m is a fantasy figure made up by a jealous man - but we are at least three players short of a mid table side.

We are already a mid-table side if you ask me. (and I know you didn't, but there you go)
Our squad isn't huge but it's more than capable of securing a mid-table finish next season as it is. Take any one of the other lower-table teams - Wolves, Burnley, The filthy'uns, Stoke, West Ham, Wigan - they are all as shite as we are, if not more. Take Fulham, Birmingham etc they have really poor quality squads but still manage, under excellent tutelege, to compete very well in the Prem. We, in my opinion, simply must make sure that, should Hughton not come up to scratch in the Prem, we next appoint a Manager capable of such a task. Easier said than done, I know.